New Google Earth images of Limerick City

billy the squid

If you have google earth installed have a look at the new images of Limerick. Was looking at it earlier and while the images are an improvement resoloution wise, it is a great pity that some areas are obscured by cloud.

Also they have added placenames for smaller towns

Galway and Carlow got the same resoloution images also. some backwater on the Donegal border with NI got excelent resoloution images though. It is annoying that the arsehole of nowhere get high res images on google earth while the cities are neglected.

kyp_durron

The images of Carlow are far better then that of Limerick, you can zoom into 1000 feet with good resoloution in Carlow, while Limerick has grainy resoloution at 4000 feet and the clouds are pretty annoying, when do you think they will update this again?

jay_haych

thats a good bit better. still not the quality that the american cities get. you can see the face of herself at the staue of liberty and you can see in the windows of cabs in times square.

incidentally: to those who've played with google earth a bit. what have been your favorite locations or what has impressed you.

the pyramids & the sphinx at giza are amazing quality shots.

Chong

Tbh the quality of the Limerick pics are bad to say the least.

kyp_durron

The hollywood sign is the only landmark I looked up, must check out the sphinx and pyramids.

Oh and also area 51, no E.T's though.

hobie

Have to say I'm not very impressed with Limerick definition ....

try this for a view of Concorde (2) at guess where? ....
zoom down to about 400 feet and you can almost count the bags going onboard ...

51°27'39.89"N 0°26'41.10"W

or how about this for a high level airport in Newyork ? ..... :eek:
(no. 77 Water street I think) .... zoom down to 300 feet ....

40°42'15.46"N 74°00'29.63W

billy the squid

If you think New York is detailed, have a look at the google campus.

1huge1

the limerick picture was taken ages ago
the childers road shopping centre was still being built
and also they have hospital right beside knocklong when its north of it other than that they did a good job

jay_haych

hobie thanks for the addresses for the 2 plane shots. they're great pics. has anyone ever wondered about terrorists using google earth to plan out an attack. washington dc is so well laid out from the white house to capitol hill

IrishMike

jay_haych wrote:

hobie thanks for the addresses for the 2 plane shots. they're great pics. has anyone ever wondered about terrorists using google earth to plan out an attack. washington dc is so well laid out from the white house to capitol hill

.... please god tell me u are joking :rolleyes:

hobie

I see no fighter aircraft ....

32°10'01.92"N 110°51'21.56"W

billy the squid

jay_haych wrote:

hobie thanks for the addresses for the 2 plane shots. they're great pics. has anyone ever wondered about terrorists using google earth to plan out an attack. washington dc is so well laid out from the white house to capitol hill

Actually it has been mentioned by indian politicans, worried about extremists in cashmir using it.

kyp_durron

hobie wrote:

I see no fighter aircraft ....

32°10'01.92"N 110°51'21.56"W

Very cool hobie, keep em coming.

billy the squid

A flying car
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car.kmz

johnnyrotten

This is why there should be a Google Earth Forum

bullets

Ahh was waiting and waiting for Limerick to go hi-res but
they did a bothched job it it.

I loved loooking at that Maxim Cover of the hottie from Desperate Housewives
on the cover that could be seen from google earth south of the Las Vegas.

~B

radioman

I was browsing through the Digitalglobe archive and found the image that Google Earth have used. It was taken on May 26th 2004. There's a link here (hope this works).

I also found that Digitalglobe have brand new images only taken a few weeks ago on April 5th, hopefully Google Earth get to use these soon as they seem like they might be better, with 0% cloud cover. Link here.

hobie

Google views are produced from millions of photos all put together to produce a seemless image .... but what happens when something is moving fast and in effect shows up in a series of side by side photos? .... well, ..... you may see the same object repeating untill it slows down and is lost from further photo frames ... :rolleyes:

here is an example ... an aircraft is landing on the runway at the top of this image ..... but it shows up in 3 different frames making it look like there are 3 seperate aircraft all landing, one after another, on the same runway .... :eek:

but it really is the same aircraft! .... magic ...

51°28'29.38"N 0°28'34.23" W

TheGreatest

wow!! Zoom down to 300 feet

51°34'22.34" N 0°42'18.47E

Delphi91

Go to Everest and rotate until you are on "ground level". You can rotate to see a 3-d view.

hobie

wow!! Zoom down to 300 feet

51°34'22.34" N 0°42'18.47E

It's an Avro Vulcan V Bomber ..... none of them airworthy today but I think there may be a plan to restore one of them (xh558) to flying condition if enough money becomes available ....

http://www.aviation-picture-hangar.co.uk/xh558.html

bullets

radioman wrote:

I was browsing through the Digitalglobe archive and found the
I also found that Digitalglobe have brand new images only taken a few weeks ago on April 5th, hopefully Google Earth get to use these soon as they seem like they might be better, with 0% cloud cover. Link here.

Can only find 2-3 really rubbish pics taken from a high alt.
Are there hi-res ones available for Free ? or are they
something you need to ay/order the Digital Gloobe site is not
very browser friendly. Think it may be geared towards Internet explorer
over other browsers.

Would love some Hi res pics of Limerick.

The county consil had a nice PDF file a while back showing like a town plan of limerick.
It was fantastic as it showed the suburben areas also and was huge. If it had been more
up to date with would have shown my house. (it showed individual buildings)
Was lucky as in work we printed out poster size.

~B

testicle

jay_haych wrote:

hobie thanks for the addresses for the 2 plane shots. they're great pics. has anyone ever wondered about terrorists using google earth to plan out an attack. washington dc is so well laid out from the white house to capitol hill

Anyone for a map?

radioman

bullets.ie wrote:

Can only find 2-3 really rubbish pics taken from a high alt.
Are there hi-res ones available for Free ? or are they
something you need to ay/order the Digital Gloobe site is not
very browser friendly. Think it may be geared towards Internet explorer
over other browsers.

~B

Those images I linked to are sample images which if ordered would be very high resolution. Digitalglobe only deal with professionals afaik, and would be very expensive to order an image.

hobie

here's one in memory of an old battle many years ago .....

21°21'53.36"N 157°57'00.10"W

I was onboard the floating memorial a few years ago ....

transylman

Limerick Galway and parts of Mayo (yay) now available in high resolution. If you have the grainy images you need to clear your cache and memory. You should be able to make out cars.

1huge1

thanks man
anyone else notice that the pic is ancient

bullets

transylman wrote:

Limerick Galway and parts of Mayo (yay) now available in high resolution. If you have the grainy images you need to clear your cache and memory. You should be able to make out cars.

Cool that did the business, Much Better now. Pic is about 6 months old ??
Was looking at a building site that had no houses a few months back and
now is a new small estate.

~B

jonski

The pic's of limerick are more than a few months old , atleast a year old I reckon .

Inge Binge

better then nothing

1huge1

i'd say over 2yrs easy
B&Q and the rest of cityeast was just grass
childers road retail park was just rubble and the riverpoint had only just started
i'd say all the irish pics were taken at the same time because cork airport was at the stage it was 2yrs ago and the kinsale roundabout was the same

radioman

1huge1 wrote:

i'd say over 2yrs easy
B&Q and the rest of cityeast was just grass
childers road retail park was just rubble and the riverpoint had only just started
i'd say all the irish pics were taken at the same time because cork airport was at the stage it was 2yrs ago and the kinsale roundabout was the same

The image used for Limerick was taken on May 26th 2004 by Digitalglobe.

Digitalglobe have a newer and better image of Limerick in their database, taken on April 5th 2006, but I don't think they'll be in any hurry whatsoever to hand it over to Google Earth.

Poxyshamrock

Do you have to pay for Digitalglobe?

Blazer

so is there a Google Earth forum yet?

1huge1

ya opened months ago
go to hosted
then technology
and there you go google earth is near the bottom

Poxyshamrock

Woohoo! It's been updated again! I think it could be around June 2006!

Limerick Dude

Yeah just realised there, that the jetland was finished in the picture!

1huge1

ya the big cloud is gone

oh i dont believe it

hospital is literally 1 inch outside the place were you can see :mad: :mad:

hobie

no sign of the Shannon crossing Tunnel work? .....

Poxyshamrock

yeah there is. Up by Quality Hotel they've started the road heading towards the tunnel i'm almost sure!

1huge1

let me get this straight
the road to the shannon tunnel starts just at the roundabout were the N20 begins and it heads in between the city with a dual carriage way? so there going to have a dual carriage way beside the cresent or have i got that totally wrong

billy the squid

The raheen bus lane to nowhere can bee seen in the images.

Evo9

1huge1 wrote:

let me get this straight
the road to the shannon tunnel starts just at the roundabout were the N20 begins and it heads in between the city with a dual carriage way? so there going to have a dual carriage way beside the cresent

Yeah thad sounds right

Poxyshamrock

The Image of Limerick on Google Earth now are probably the ones from Digital Globe taken on April 5th 2006. The Google Earth Images are DEFINATELY taken before June 2nd anyway.